[http://www.fdlp.gov/home/about/918-rda-implications Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the Implications of RDA for Federal Depository Libraries]. GPO information page, announced July 12, 2011.

Statement from the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine regarding the [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_Executives_statement.pdf ''Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA—Resource Description & Access'']. June 13, 2011

Statement from the Library of Congress, the National Agricultural Library, and the National Library of Medicine regarding the [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/RDA_Executives_statement.pdf ''Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee on the implementation of RDA—Resource Description & Access'']. June 13, 2011

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Contents

Purpose

GODORT's Cataloging Committee has four main purposes:

To provide a forum for technical discussions on policies and practices for government document cataloging; to serve as an interface for information exchange between documents catalogers and documents users in government agencies, various types of libraries, and bibliographic networks; to comment upon matters which affect the cataloging of government documents and to raise such issues as appropriate; and to serve as liaison with other groups within ALA and through GODORT, with Federal agencies, other library associations, and bibliographic networks.

The Committee meets twice a year, at the ALA Midwinter Meeting and Annual Conference, to discuss description and access issues with representatives of government agencies and GODORT's liaison to CC:DA. The Committee maintains three resource "toolboxes" to assist those cataloging and processing government publications.

The Committee uses this wiki page to post agendas and links to electronic resources. The Committee also has an ALA Connect node which may be used for communication between ALA meetings.

Previous Topics of Interest

Provider-Neutral E-Monograph MARC Record Guide has been posted to the BIBCO Web site. In anticipation of an implementation date of August 1, 2009, the guide was posted to the BIBCO Web site. Thanks to Provider Neutral Task Force members Becky Culbertson, Yael Mandelstam, and George Prager for preparing the guide. The document contains background information, a metadata application profile (MAP), and examples to guide BIBCO and other catalogers in creating provider neutral e-monograph records.

There is a link to the Provider-Neutral E-Monograph MARC Record Guide on the BIBCO Web site, listed under the BIBCO Participants Manual.

LCRI 25.5B has been revised to support the CONSER practice of not requiring a uniform title for an online monographic series solely to differentiate online from other physical mediums. This revision is included in the Cataloger's Desktop 2009 Issue 3 released July 31, 2009.

Resource Description and Access (RDA) Webcasts
2/17/09 - In a series of webcasts, Dr. Barbara Tillett, Chief, Policy and Standards Division of the Acquisitions and Bibliographic Access Directorate, presents information about Resource Description and Access (RDA), the next generation cataloging code. Presentations currently available include one providing background and an overview of RDA, and one on the cataloging principles of RDA. Future presentations will focus on Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements of Authority Data (FRAD), and the content and structure of RDA.

MARC Proposal No. 2008-06
With field 440 becoming obsolete, some are asking "How are you dealing with $x ISSN in the 440's that isn't legal in the 8xx?" To address this, the proposal suggests adding information associated with the Series Added Entry fields (800-830).